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Is that really your response to being informed that Allen was 1 for 12 on those throws? Man you really lean into your wrong. 😂

So we are resurrecting another "it's not that I am getting old it's that everything is just less fun" thread? Why? There will be a new one in a few months when the next guy hits manopause.

Wow to the bolded. Josh Allen was 1 for 12 on throws of over 20 yards in the middle of the field in the 2023 season and playoffs.........the 12th being that idiotic one hopper to Shakir on 2nd and 9. Your entire premise is dead f#cking wrong. You called it a throw he makes 10 out of 10 times...........in reality he had made it 1 out of 11 times prior. 😂 Below is his passing chart. It slides with the arrow for this year or 2023. You are just in denial about how stupid of a choice that was.

I don't know Patrick Moran but he was absolutely correct. So it speaks poorly of people when they attack him for telling the truth. As I've told people here for years, the guy who cuffed him has been coming to Bills home games for over 50 years. He got called the first week of the Bills stadium experience because they are 60 year ST holders and they immediately bought-in. If anyone needs clarification he's at our tailgate on Glenn St. next to Hammer's house every game. He also saved the life of a girl who overdosed in Hammer's side yard last season because he had his work kit with naloxone spray with him. These homeland security dudes see some crazy sh!t working the border, but catching a known juicer with some juice? That's just too hard for some internetsters to believe. 😂

He'd gone to Ontario to get some treatment and PED's from a doctor who was peddling some popular designer juice. And yes, it happened. He got cuffed and wouldn't admit what he had in viles he purchased there. The real ex-pat housewives of TSW just doubted it because HS chose not to pursue charges. Which happens sometimes. They have their hands full with violent threats. And they also happen to be Bills fans.

I think 5........plus Ankou has one more PS elevation and will likely be active Sunday. They tend to keep a lot of DL and/or OL. But I'm sure by June some folks will be back to figuring on them rostering 6-7 WR on opening day.

The ceiling ain't the roof..........but at least we know the floor is washed.

Well Allen passed up multiple completely WIDE OPEN deep TD opportunities in this Dolphins game to take shorter, higher percentage throws and keep the chains moving so I guess he's not doing his job right by not taking those "10/10" throws by your description. Mahomes has won 2 SB's in a row taking the surer thing.......after Brady made a GOAT career out of it. You can't laud Allen(and Joe Brady) for adopting that same philosophy this season and not acknowledge that Allen should have taken the wide open throw to Diggs underneath in that divisional game and gotten the first down or set up a 3rd and short and keep grinding the clock and the exhausted Chiefs D to get a TD with as little time left as possible. How does one be a fan of, at the time, the biggest SB favorite in history(XXV) and watch that team lose by having the clock controlled and then 30+ years later still not understand that YOUR team can use the clock to choke out a superior performing offense as well?

None of their playoff losses were simply because of bad luck. They squandered many opportunities in all of them. Luck is a factor, sure. The Chiefs ended up with 2 extra possessions in the 13 seconds game by virtue of a couple coin flips. But the Bills played it conservative on offense on a couple drives in the second half and it cost them and then they misplayed the coverages at the end of regulation. That wasn't luck. Josh Allen is being praised this year for taking the underneath throws a lot more often. Even when he has WIDE open receivers deep like he had on multiple occasions versus Miami. But he and Brady idiotically attempted a kill shot to Shakir on 2nd and 9 down 3 after the 2 minute warning in their most recent playoff loss. Ilogical, stupid aggressiveness. It just gets brushed aside because we love Allen and Brady was still on his honeymoon with the fan base. They needed to kill the clock and score with as little time as possible left to assure victory and instead were hoping to give Mahomes and his 9 yards per play offense the ball back to play 4 down football down 4 points with almost 2 minutes left.

Yeah it was definitely reminiscent of the playoff loss to the Chiefs last year in the way Miami had little trouble moving the ball. They didn't put up 9 yards per play like Chiefs did but they put up 6.5 yards per play. Only the Ravens have averaged more than 6.5 yards per play on the season so it's a notably high number to allow, particularly at home.

Marino's point was to deceive. I think perhaps he is angling for Shill Capaccio's sideline reporter job. Rushing the ball isn't usually a great way to score points? Who'd have thought that running the ball largely serves to set up the pass? If only Ron Jaworski new this 30 years ago he'd have been able to tell ESPN viewers that points come from the passing game. Per PFF........the Dolphins average EPA per play in the game was .32 and the Bills was .06. Marino didn't mention the Bills EPA per rush(which clearly also sucked) but he did say how beautiful he feels their zone rush offense is.

The Sears catalog arrived in late August back in the 70's and they had exclusive Star Wars sets.........it was a big deal........you'd be hoping you got that stuff for like 4 months.

Cargo ships change direction quicker than Efe Obada. I don't think I could stomach him being on the field in Buffalo again. They'd be a lot better off seeing if Ndamukong Suh wants to come out of retirement before they did that. I suspect we will see more veteran players who are chasing rings released at their behest later in the season. Like when Houston released WR Kenny Stills late in the 2020(?) season and the Bills put him on the PS. Might even see guys like Jadeveon Clowney and Calais Campbell cut late(and probably both head back to Baltimore). EDIT: Clowney won't be released. I thought he was on a 1 year deal but he is on a 2 year deal. Campbell I could see being cut though. He is dirt cheap($2M for 1 season). He may have earned a raise next year with his play but for what he will get he will be able to choose his team and wait until after the deadline for the comp pick formula to sign there. So Miami won't have any reason to hold onto him, IMO. He could make a playoff run elsewhere and still return home to Miami for 2025 if that's what he wanted.

And when Jordan Phillips was in the draft there were people who should have known better that were pretty sure he was going to be a stud nose tackle. Because he was like 340#. He never had the want-to to play low enough to be a 1 tech let alone a NT. And at his height it was more challenging. Eagles fans are finding out similar with Jordan Davis who has a similar build and athleticism. He's better getting upfield than he is at holding the point. Deone Walker the giant prospect from Kentucky in this draft has same issues.

4:01 pm mock draft season begins in earnest.

Daboll wasn't a hot commodity in 2022. He got a couple interviews for jobs he wasn't getting. He only got the Giants job because they had already hired a GM from Buffalo's front office. Daboll had a LONG history of producing terrible offense's and subsequent firings as an NFL OC. Including the 2018 sh!t show in Buffalo that was the lowest scoring offense the NFL had seen thru 8 games since the AFL/NFL merger. When he's been bad he's been horrible. Ben Johnson's trajectory has been nothing but upward.

It's their glaring hole right now. The only saving grace if they can't get something done is the fact that run defense's automatically get better in the playoffs when the effort and intensity increases. That's why individual RB's never move the needle much for a team in the playoffs. That's why a Bills run defense that was getting trampled for historic numbers after the Dareus trade was later able to control the Jacksonville run game for most of that 2017 playoff game. When Baltimore loses you can expect a terrible stat-line for Derrick Henry. That's how it usually ends.

Bad value for Dallas but Mingo is under contract cheap for the 2025 and 2026 seasons so that raises his day 3 value notably. Dallas obviously had a high grade on him in that 2023 draft.

And Giants fans definitely hate the Dodgers a lot more than Yankees fans. I'm reminded when driving out of Yankee stadium parking and seeing the Polo Grounds apartments that the two teams stadiums were just separated by a short bridge. About the equivalent walking from the Big Tree Road entrance to lot 1 up to the The Ralph.

Yeah that 60-62 includes the playoffs where the Bills are 4-1 against Miami. Otherwise 56-61 in regular season. The playoff wins are worth far more. The rivalry edge belongs to the Bills right now. 49-77 versus New England is the reason for that.

Yeah he was awful chatty with the Bills yesterday. During one of the timeouts he took his helmet off and came over to the Bills offensive huddle and was talking to the OL. It was an odd sight. The rest of the Dolphins D were all like 10 yards away.

Yeah defense's have been giving the Bills these throws all season and yesterday the Bills really took them. And yes Cook very likely scores a TD on that drop.....I don't know what the TV angle looked like yet but the All-22 will show nobody besides the trailing coverage LB on that side of the field. I'm not sure defense's will make any adjustments the Dolphins are just really shorthanded on defense and couldn't limit the damage. But you could argue that the Dolphins approach of making the Bills run a lot plays yielded mistakes from the Bills. The Bills left 11 points on the board in the first half due to 2 drops and 2 penalties and that allowed Miami to keep pounding the Bills at the LOS on offense.

1) The better your WR talent the less BTT's you probably need to attempt/make. That's likely why Allen didn't rank as highly in that stat in the 2020 season as he has since. In 2020 he had perhaps the top WR corps in the NFL and had clearly his best passing season. Not just statistically but mechanically and how the ball was coming out of his hand etc.. 2) It's hard for me to read too much into the bulk stats because of this very odd schedule. The eyeball test is that they've only played 2 good teams and their lack of boundary WR talent got exposed by them and they had 2 really awful offensive games. But the Bills have since addressed the boundary with a veteran WR1 and Coleman looks to be rounding into form. Obviously the Chiefs/Niners/Rams/Lions stretch will be when we get to see how much of a difference those improvements made.

I like that you are laying it out there on what you think the contract would look like. But if he is more than just a Christian Kirk level slot.......then settling for what Kirk got 3 years later is a huge sacrifice. I mean the cap will have increased by $50M in that time and that figure might be up to $70M by the time Shakir's contract is set to expire AFTER the 2025 season. And if he produces more like 1200 yards that number is certainly closer to $30M value in 2025 than $20M. This is why I see a potential Gabe Davis like standoff. Shakir might be settling for 60 cents on the dollar signing early. In the deals they got done with Knox and Spencer Brown I don't think either were asked to sacrifice nearly that much potential.

Yep I posted my opinions of the 2024 Yanks sh!ttiness before the series started and we basically got to see all of those warts in the WS against a "good" but seriously wounded Dogers team. So they somehow still had a chance to steal a WS title in what was a REALLY hard year to watch. They were about as fun to watch for a longtime baseball fan as that dogsh!t 2017 backed-into-wildcard Bills team whose offense I wish I could unsee. Only fun for people who don't know how the game is supposed to be played. But the media and fans who think the Yankees blowing that 5-0 lead in the 5th inning was epic either didn't see Clay Holmes blow 14 saves during the season or are just exaggerating for effect. They blew games in incredible ways all season. That Errin' Buffoonery was not at all out of character.😂 Not a great year for baseball. Simply put, not nearly enough hitting. League batting average dropped 5 points from 2023. There were times when it looked like that batting average was going to end up the worst in 100 years. The game being dominated by no-name relief pitchers who are gassed after 20 pitches is not what the owners should want. Make the strike zone a circle that fits entirely inside the current square....eliminate those unsquarable corner pitches and these rock chuckers will have to ratchet down the velocity and break. Watch the league batting average jump right back up 20 points where it should be. It's no fun seeing lineups filled with sub-.250 hitters. And subsequently more balls put in play will lead to sharper defense and more exciting baseball. But even the randomness created by early short series format in the playoffs couldn't prevent this matchup this season........just too many bad teams......the only thing that really went right for baseball is that the Yanks and Dodgers finally met again. 43 years was far too long.